September 4, 2025Sep 4 So I'm trying to install Immich for the first time and I'm following SpaceInvader One's guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtNWxxM5Mzg). I've always had great success with his guides in the past. But, this time it appears that both of the dockers he uses have changed. Specifically, it looks like the security settings for Postgres have changed. When I try to lauch the two dockers I get error messages in the log for Immich_PostgreSQL. 2025-09-03 18:54:45.024 PDT [54] FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"2025-09-03 18:54:45.024 PDT [54] DETAIL: Connection matched file "/var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf" line 128: "host all all all scram-sha-256"Has anyone seen an update to the install guides or offer any suggestions?TIA
September 4, 2025Sep 4 Community Expert see guides post for CA and ComposeDocker Guides:Immich Docker-compose SetupImmich Unraid-Template in the CA Edited September 4, 2025Sep 4 by bmartino1
September 4, 2025Sep 4 Community Expert 8 hours ago, InReasonNotFish said:So I'm trying to install Immich for the first time and I'm following SpaceInvader One's guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtNWxxM5Mzg). I've always had great success with his guides in the past. But, this time it appears that both of the dockers he uses have changed. Specifically, it looks like the security settings for Postgres have changed. When I try to lauch the two dockers I get error messages in the log for Immich_PostgreSQL.2025-09-03 18:54:45.024 PDT [54] FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"2025-09-03 18:54:45.024 PDT [54] DETAIL: Connection matched file "/var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf" line 128: "host all all all scram-sha-256"Has anyone seen an update to the install guides or offer any suggestions?TIAFYI: -You are responsible for your own data!you may need to delete your old the Postgres appdata as it appears your immich docker password is not the same password that is the appdata folders configurations.Postgress is a set once at first start. once the dabase is inatlized if you edit the template and change the password it will not update the password.-You will then need to use pgadmin or other sql connection and run sql comands to cahge the passowrd. OR delete the postgress database and let postgress recreate by deleting the previous data...if you restored a previous Postgres database it will use the old restored database password...just because you uninstall the docker done't mean the docker data that docker used is uninstalled. Edited September 4, 2025Sep 4 by bmartino1 -You are responsible for your own data!
September 5, 2025Sep 5 Author 15 hours ago, bmartino1 said:FYI: -You are responsible for your own data!you may need to delete your old the Postgres appdata as it appears your immich docker password is not the same password that is the appdata folders configurations.Postgress is a set once at first start. once the dabase is inatlized if you edit the template and change the password it will not update the password.-You will then need to use pgadmin or other sql connection and run sql comands to cahge the passowrd. OR delete the postgress database and let postgress recreate by deleting the previous data...if you restored a previous Postgres database it will use the old restored database password...just because you uninstall the docker done't mean the docker data that docker used is uninstalled.This was it exactly. I didn't correctly set the postgres password when I installed the docker. I updated it after and it clearly didn't get updated in the appdata. Deleting the appdata and then restarting the docker worked perfectly. Thanks.
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